Word: coachly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis' energetic, earnest Dr. Samuel Shepard Jr. two years ago. A Negro, he had risen from abject poverty in Kansas City. Mo., put himself through the University of Michigan by scullery work. He climbed steadily in the St. Louis public-school system, first as teacher and athletic coach, later as principal. To his white colleagues, it was no surprise. "Sam Shepard is willing to work three times harder than anyone else," one of them says. "He stays with a problem like a dog on a bone, until he gets the job done." By 1952 Sam Shepard, a district director...
From the Interstate Commerce Commission last week came a 121-page prescription for restoring the health of the nation's railroads. Rejecting a prognosis by ICC Hearing Examiner Howard Hosmer that if the present rate of passenger-traffic decline continues, Pullman service will end by 1965 and coach service (except for commuters) by 1970, ICC hopefully insisted that railroad passenger service "is, and for the foreseeable future will be, an integral part of our national transportation system and essential for the nation's well-being and defense." But it conceded that if the railroads are to continue...
...performance of this year's freshman team bears out Coach Bruce Monro's contention that "this season we are building the foundations for Harvard lacrosse...
Back in March when Cage-practice began, the prognosis was very dark indeed. Coach Norm Shepard's flock appeared, at that time, to contain a host of veritable lambs, and only two full-grown specimens. Catcher John Davis and shortstop Mouse Kasarjian both had played for at least a year on the varsity level; but this seemed an alarmingly small nucleus for building a winning team...
...season it was apparent that raw talent was there in abundance. Few college teams are blessed with three such naturally gifted hitters as Chet Boulris (currently batting .387), George Harrington (.382), and Al Martin (.316). Dick Shima (.282) and Davis (.261) are also basically sound batters. And taken altogether, coach Shepard's starting nine averages just 15 points below...